Amoebas

Here two amoebas search for food by extending actin-based projections called filopodia. The amoeba on the left shows some spectacular branching filopodia as it hunts for food and substrate. Notice also, especially on the right amoeba, the highly dynamic internal flow of material (vesicles and organelles), caused by the flow of the actin cytoskeleton. I found these in a pond water sample from southern California. They are both moving a piece of pond debris. Images taken at 20X in bright-field on a Nikon Te2000 Microscope.

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Education

Tags:

• amoeba
• filopodia
• microscopy
• actin
• pond water
• motility

[Merdam9]

THEY ARE SO FREAKING ADORABLE!!